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  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    I wish I'd seen it the year Hushovd won.

    You didn't miss much of a race that year. Zzzzz.

    Was it good when Evans won?
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    MrTapir wrote:
    The Belgian anthem is rather good.

    Thought it was pretty rubbish myself. :lol:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Good atmosphere too.
    _
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Was that the Dutch Royal Family doing a John Terry?

    Well to be fair, one of them has allowed a cycle path right through the middle of his front garden which i use for work everyday so...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Lichtblick wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    I wish I'd seen it the year Hushovd won.

    You didn't miss much of a race that year. Zzzzz.

    Was it good when Evans won?

    Yeah, probably the best one I've seen.
  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Good atmosphere too.

    Changing your mind about the ardennes classics? :P
  • Lichtblick
    Lichtblick Posts: 1,434
    How much d'you win when you win this? thousands? hundreds of thousands?
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Bloody impressed with JTL too!
    Mañana
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    @Laura_Meseguer - Freire visiblemente disgustado tras la meta: "Debían haber estado conmigo en los kms finales. No puedo neutralizar y rematar"

    Don't speak Spanish, but I guess Oscar is a little peeved...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    ddraver wrote:
    @Laura_Meseguer - Freire visiblemente disgustado tras la meta: "Debían haber estado conmigo en los kms finales. No puedo neutralizar y rematar"

    Don't speak Spanish, but I guess Oscar is a little peeved...

    He was complaining that Valverde didn't wait for him.
  • ContrelaMontre
    ContrelaMontre Posts: 3,027
    Brilliant race. Very pleased it was Pip even if Valv was my PTP pick.

    Awesome work by JTL to finish in such elite company. I never thought he'd last the distance today!
    Rule No.10 // It never gets easier, you just go faster
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Milton50 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Good atmosphere too.

    Changing your mind about the ardennes classics? :P

    Ha, the worlds aren't the Ardenne races unfortunately ;).
    _
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    I wish I'd seen it the year Hushovd won.

    You didn't miss much of a race that year. Zzzzz.

    Was it good when Evans won?

    Yeah, probably the best one I've seen.

    Iain hated every minute of it.
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,454
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How much d'you win when you win this? thousands? hundreds of thousands?

    It depends if you have a bonus for winning it in your contract or not (and Gilbert will for sure). He'll owe the Belgian team some of that, as he'll have almost certainly paid for their support today. Any prize money, and I don't think there is any, will go into that pot too. On top of any bonus, he'll get more in the way of sponsorship endorsements so it'll be well worth his while winning.
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    I wish I'd seen it the year Hushovd won.

    You didn't miss much of a race that year. Zzzzz.

    Was it good when Evans won?

    Yeah, probably the best one I've seen.

    I'm sure you mean the Stuttgart one..
  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    I've just seen last hour, can someone tell me where was Cav, Wiggins and Froome ?
    Team4Luke supports Cardiac Risk in the Young
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    well, that were a right good race

    Great winner and runner-up - makes up for Piti being on the podium
    Exciting race
    Cav - class
    Younger Brits showed very well
    JTL more than proved that he's going to made the step-up, no problem
    Stannard - Sky had better give him protected leader status next spring
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    ThomThom wrote:
    MrTapir wrote:
    The Belgian anthem is rather good.

    Thought it was pretty rubbish myself. :lol:

    I'm very sorry but you are quite wrong. :wink:
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Team4Luke wrote:
    I've just seen last hour, can someone tell me where was Cav, Wiggins and Froome ?

    The boozer.
    Mañana
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    Btw, if I ever see another race with no time info or distance bar in the top, I will hurt a canary.
  • MrTapir
    MrTapir Posts: 1,206
    ddraver wrote:
    @Laura_Meseguer - Freire visiblemente disgustado tras la meta: "Debían haber estado conmigo en los kms finales. No puedo neutralizar y rematar"

    Don't speak Spanish, but I guess Oscar is a little peeved...

    "Visiblemente disgustado hethethetheth pethethetheth Chrith Waddle"
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    Cav was a hero for the first few hours, I never saw Froome or Wiggo do much but then I fell asleep for an hour in the middle...

    Think they kept the pace/gap consistent for JTL
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Turfle
    Turfle Posts: 3,762
    Wiggo and Froome didn't do much that I saw. Both just utterly shattered and or very out of shape.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Team4Luke wrote:
    I've just seen last hour, can someone tell me where was Cav, Wiggins and Froome ?



    Cav drove the peloton, kept the pace at a decent JTL-level, and made sure the distance to the breakaway for the first half of the race didnt get out of hand, then dropped out (and then prob went to find the 'dick-head' of a spectator who almost took him out with a sign on the climb)

    Wiggo and Froome - toasted physically and mentally by this point in season and both dropped out
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Stannard - Sky had better give him protected leader status next spring

    Could do very well indeed. Can see him really being up there towards the end in Roubaix. Along with Thomas and Flecha they will have a strong team.
    Mañana
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How much d'you win when you win this? thousands? hundreds of thousands?

    The rainbow jersey for a year. The money is broadly irrelevant.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    pb21 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Stannard - Sky had better give him protected leader status next spring

    Could do very well indeed. Can see him really being up there towards the end in Roubaix. Along with Thomas and Flecha they will have a strong team.

    Flecha's left sky.
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    iainf72 wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How much d'you win when you win this? thousands? hundreds of thousands?

    The rainbow jersey for a year. The money is broadly irrelevant.

    Not sure Pip will be saying that when he takes a look at his bank account in February after spending a lot of time standing in rainbow lycra infront of various cameras...
    _
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    pb21 wrote:
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Stannard - Sky had better give him protected leader status next spring

    Could do very well indeed. Can see him really being up there towards the end in Roubaix. Along with Thomas and Flecha they will have a strong team.


    Flecha off to Vacansoleil next season. Hayman will be there still though. Be interesting to see how Rowe does.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    iainf72 wrote:
    Lichtblick wrote:
    How much d'you win when you win this? thousands? hundreds of thousands?

    The rainbow jersey for a year. The money is broadly irrelevant.

    Not sure Pip will be saying that when he takes a look at his bank account in February after spending a lot of time standing in rainbow lycra infront of various cameras...

    Sure. The prize money is irrelevant because you'll make a lot more elsewhere. I'd suggest you'd probably get more money at a crit as world champ than you would from winning the race.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

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